"God and the people are the source of all power. I have twice been given the power. I have taken it, and damn it, I will keep it forever."

-- Francois Duvalier

#Taken Quotes #People Quotes #Forever Quotes

“I remember reading a book that was on songwriting at some point that I found in my dad's store, and just... I did not relate at all. I've always hated structure of all kinds, it just doesn't work for me. I can never fit into the schedules of other people. It's like putting a schedule on your song, and it doesn't allow you to be moved by your own music.”
“I believe that no one should be executed, guilty or innocent. There are appropriate sanctions that protect society and punish wrongdoers without forcing us to stoop to the level of the least among us at his or her worst moment.”
“Anything that has real and lasting value is always a gift from within.”
“Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man.”
“I try to carve my own way so the actors who come after me will say, "I want to do it like Columbus did it."”

Source : Interview with Nell Minow, moviemom.maxlazebnik.com. December 02, 2009.
“We don't care if these girls want to eat their men. That's the Piranha Man's problem. We just want the avocados.”

Source : "Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death". www.imdb.com. 1989.
“A poet must sing for his own people.”

Source : Edmund Clarence Stedman (1903). “Victorian Poets: Revised and Extended by a Supplementary Chapter, to the Fiftieth Year of the Period Under Review”
“In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.”

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